Lori Lightfoot

Lori Lightfoot (4 August 1962-) was Mayor of Chicago from 20 May 2019, succeeding Rahm Emanuel.

Biography
Lori Elaine Lightfoot was born in Massillon, Ohio in 1962. She worked for US Congress members Ralph Regula and Barbara Mikulski before attending the University of Chicago Law School, and she served as an Assistant US Attorney from 1996 to 2002, Chief Administrator of the Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards from 2002 to 2004, and in other roles in the city government from 2004 to 2005 before returning to private practice. From 2015 to 2018, she served on the Chicago Police Board and Police Accountability Task Force. In 2018, she was elected as the first LGBT and first African-American mayor of Chicago, and she sought to reduce crime in the city, supported legalized gambling, and launched a community policing initiative in June 2019.